8:37 PM,
May 1, 2012

A dispute between Circuit Judge Charles Dodson and State Attorney Willie Meggs is before the 1st District Court of Appeal.

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update 8:35 p.m.

A Leon circuit judge threatened to throw prosecutors in jail if they disobeyed his order to draft jury instructions ahead of criminal trials.

State Attorney Willie Meggs refused to follow Judge Charles Dodson's order to prepare instructions a day before trial, prompting Dodson to imply in court that Meggs and his prosecutors would be sharing a jail cell. ...

"If nobody shows up with jury instructions next week, you may have some roommates next week, and I don't want to do that," Dodson said during a pretrial hearing April 10 involving a man charged with attempted armed ...